Heart-breaking????

[bazzateer]

May be a pea roast but................................

www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2008/01/foto_oude_klassieke_autos_wat.html

[rooster]

me spots a unipower gt, me cries

(couldnt understand the writing but, vert saddening pics !)

[Adam]

That F40 is a replica isnt it? Proportions arent quite right.

[The Doctor]

writing is dutch, google language tools can probably make some readable-ish language from that page for you guys ;D

about the F40, i too think it's replica.

[goochi01]

Some of those are terrible, surely if they were even slightly into cars they could see that some of those classics NEED saving.

Strangly liking the Miura with a bull bar though...

[SparksECM]

can anyone tell me what the purple thing is in the next picture down from the white 911 with a tree growing through it? it looks awesome!

[hairnet]

the fezza is real slightly been binned

in dubai so meh think they can afford it

[goochi01]

Dec 7, 2008 21:48:28 GMT SparksECM said:

can anyone tell me what the purple thing is in the next picture down from the white 911 with a tree growing through it? it looks awesome!

It looks like a pre production test mule for the TVR Speed 12. This was, at one point, likely to be the fastest car in the world. It was TVRs intention to build an amazing race car that happened to be road legal. I think it came with a 7.7 V12 which TVR claimed to produce around 800 bhp remember all this in a car that weighed about a ton!

I read an article on wikipedia which I liked the sound of:

In an interview then-owner Peter Wheeler, said that TVR had tried to record the car's power on an engine dyno. The dyno was rated at 1,000 bhp (750 kW) but the test resulted in its input shaft being broken. To get an approximate figure TVR engineers tested each bank individually; the result was 480 bhp (360 kW) per bank, suggesting a total rating of 960 bhp (720 kW). Wheeler, no newcomer to high performance cars and an experienced racer in the TVR Tuscan Challenge, drove one of the finished prototypes home and concluded that the car was unusable on the road, in his opinion simply too powerful.

Top speed of over 240mph was suggested.....

Shame it never made it to the road.

[Mystery Machine]

As Goochi says, it's the Speed 12 - but the one in the photo looks like the concept/model because it has the sold painted windows (f&r screen and side window)

It's not a road going version but a clay/wood styling exercise (buck) that was used to show what the car looks like in the flesh and sometimes these bucks were used to make the moulds from once the styling is refined/corrected.



There is a story/rumour that Peter Wheelers dog bit into the front of the scale clay model of the Chimaera and the resulting tooth mark was turned into the front indicator styling and made it into production. Probably an urban myth, but an interesting one all the same....

[joe90]

I think all these are in the " lets see the abandoned ones " thread.

Bryan

[Mystery Machine]

....and here is what the exact prototype looked like before it was discarded (note the soild windows again....)


This is what the 'production' version looked like:



A small production run of GT race cars were made and raced, but one was converted by special request into a road car for a TVR enthusiast. The conversion was carried out by TVR on one of the GT cars and was made road legal. Peter Wheeler himself was in charge of the project.

[luckygti]

I think that's the saddest website I've ever looked at!

[mercmad]

Well at least one of these cars has been saved.
This Miura is now here in Australia . A mate who has several lambo's has bought it to build a SV clone. it's had a fire under the bonnet and the intake was pretty charred but he's had it running.Freight alone was in 5 figures.

This one,Bizzarini Strada , is also safe now...almost,as it will never see the road again. That picture was taken in the warehouse where the Iranian government stored all the cars that Shah had owned or lent out ( and returned to the people by the government) .It's now the Iranian national motor Museum in Tehran .A very popular place to visit apparently.

[Autofive]

heres a better mixture of abandoned exotics, from the supercar forum

but some of the avatars may not be suitable for work

www.supercarforums.co.uk/chatforum/viewtopic.php?t=30

[skinnylew]

think i saw the red alfa on pug wheels on ebay once, some of those in the photos were Saddam's car's iirc, and some of those are out in South America and are impossible to buy due to the ownership being drug cartel related or asking extortionate amounts for them (thats what i seem to remember from an article i read)

[jettadeluxe]

Obvious fake, the wheelbase is far too short

Real one...




I've seen a pic from the front, its in a salvage yard, and most of the front is missing from a heavy crash.



Been saved by some enthusiasts and being restored at present.

A friend of mine lives by the Thames, and in the underground carpark of her apartment block is a Brabus Smart Roadster. Been stood for three years and never moved. It's thick with dust and covered in fag packets and McDonald wrapper, where the local chavs have got in an proceeded to write all manner of 'witty' comments into the dust on every panel and window.

[Rich606]

Dec 8, 2008 2:14:59 GMT Autofive said:

heres a better mixture of abandoned exotics, from the supercar forum

but some of the avatars may not be suitable for work

www.supercarforums.co.uk/chatforum/viewtopic.php?t=30

Poor old E Type Jaguar discarded outside this place in the West Country.

I thought I'd seen that pic before. I have an odd feeling that that's Bath, up the Wellsway just before you get to Bear Flat.

[gearoil]

I'd love to stick a startpack and a shot of fresh petrol on the Pantera...

And, if I ever became silly stinking rich, I'd buy TVR from that ruskie idiot and be back building tempremental, jaw dropping super beasties asap.

[HoTWire]

Dec 8, 2008 17:08:58 GMT Rich606 said:

I thought I'd seen that pic before. I have an odd feeling that that's Bath, up the Wellsway just before you get to Bear Flat.

I'll go have a looksee